Austria celebrated Die Lange Nacht der Forschung (The Long Night of Research) in May 2024. It is a biannual event taking place across multiple cities, intended to help the general public get people more interested in science, thanks to exhibits and demonstrations in all nine Austrian provinces. It is aimed at all ages with some events specially for children.

DeDNAed partner BNN took part in the last edition on 24 May 2024 with a dynamic program at over 270 locations with tours, workshops, talks, demonstrations, and interactive experiments to observe, participate in, and be amazed by.

With the intention of bringing science closer to the general public, BNN showed how and where to discover nanotechnology in everyday life at our hands-on station. We had a blast bringing visitors closer to “nano”.

Over 800 people of all ages came to our booth at RCPE’s facilities on Inffeldgasse in Graz to learn about nanotechnology in daily life – from the littlest guests experimenting with water droplets on hydrophobic and hydrophilic surfaces, to teens and adults matching nanomaterials with their real-life (and future!) applications.